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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: More fluoxetine and bulimia
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.035123.3345@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Jul26.223844.1@amherst.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:51:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul26.223844.1@amherst.edu> akcobb@amherst.edu writes:
- >Is there any medicine that can actually inhibit the vomiting
- >action?
-
- There are anti-nauseant medications which can control nausea and the
- resulting urge to vomit--these are frequently used in certain disease
- states, and during cancer chemotherapy. Fluoxetine is not usually
- considered one of these. In fact, nausea isn't all that uncommon
- a side effect of fluoxetine.
-
- >I ask in relation to treatment of bulimia with Prozac
- >(fluoxetine); I have known people to actually not be able to
- >vomit, even after a physically painful binge, after being on
- >Prozac for 2-4 weeks. Is this as unfounded as it seems?
- >Perhaps it is just psychological somehow.
-
- I don't know of any drugs which prevent so-called "voluntary"
- self-induced vomiting. I doubt fluoxetine or any other pharmacotherapy
- of bulemia works in this way.
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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